“Empires are very different from republics. They are no longer by, for, and of the people. They’re too big… too complex… with too many fingers in too many pies for the people or their elected representatives to keep up with.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/would-the-founding-fathers-recognize-modern-america/
“Nothing can be done to make the Wi-Fi naming wit change his or her alarming network name, [Saginaw Township Police Chief Donald] Pussehl said: it’s speech that’s protected under the First Amendment.”
“The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/nsa-call-records-purged.html
“Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to ‘spin’ information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland’s mayor.”
“The TSA is effective at violating our liberty, but it is ineffective at protecting our security.”
“Two-thirds of the US lives inside this so-called 100-mile border zone, which includes many major cities and several entire states, including Florida, Michigan, Maine and Hawaii, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/us/maine-new-hampshire-border-patrol-checkpoints/index.html
“While tearing children away from parents under a policy designed to keep asylum seekers from entering U.S. society, the Trump administration is forcing those same children to pledge their allegiance to the country that is actively trying to expel them.”
“Civil rights advocates and medical groups are arguing the databases should be used to identify problem patients and get them into treatment. The American Medical Association calls for the databases to be placed under health departments rather than the police agencies and disciplinary boards that control most of them.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/databases-key-crackdown-on-opioids-686879
“In the hands of government surveillance programs and law enforcement agencies, there’s simply no way that face recognition software will be not used to harm citizens.”
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation opposes the bill, calling it ‘flawed’ and ‘misguided.’ The group argues the measure would make the government and advisory group responsible for deciding what is true or false. It also points out the First Amendment prevents content-based restrictions, even if the statements of ‘admittedly false.'”
Read more: http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/06/25/california-considers-fake-news-advisory-group/